Hainee



2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

R E N I A H N E. S S I E G 0 PORTABLE RANGE.

Patented June 10, 1884;

\"fSS (a nvmk/sz/ gamfu 4 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

PORTABLE RANGE.

Patented June 10, 1884.

1 yNTOR:

0. P. GEISSENHAINER.

(No- Model.)

WITNESSES:

ilNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES P. GEIISSENHAINER, or PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK. s. BIssELL, or SAME PLACE.

PORTABLE RANGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,064, dated June 10,1884.

' I Application filed November 17, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GHARLEsP. GEISSEN- HAINER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, county of Allegheny, State of. Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered a new and useful Improvement in Portable Ranges; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, concise, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-like letters indicating like parts Figure l is a top plan View of a stove embodying my invention, parts of the top plate and its adjuncts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on the line as m, Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are edge and top plan views, respectively, of the detachable plate having the pipe-collar attached thereto. Figs. 5 and 6 are side and plan views, respectively, of the detachable flue-box. Figs. 7 and 8 are edge and plan views, respectively, of the detachable flue-stopper. Figs. 9 and 10 are side and edge views of the draft-deflector. Fig. 11 is a plan view showing a modified form of portable range.

My-invention relates to that class of stoves which are known as portable ranges or side stoves.

The portable range differs from the ordinary cook-stove in having an oven-door at one side only, the other side being made with a solid plate; and it further differs in having the fluebox and pipe-collar arranged at the side of the stove in place of the end. A range of this construction is arranged sidewise in the kitchen, and it is therefore necessary, in ordering a stove, that the arrangement of the sink and water-pipes should be stated, so that a range adapted to the kitchen may be had. If, after having obtained a rangee. 9., a right-handed one-adapted to one room, it is desired to move the range to another room having a different arrangement of water-pipes and sink, it is necessary to change the range from a right to a left hand range; but this-change involves considerable expense and time.

The object of my invention is to so construct a portable range that it can be easily and quickly converted from a right-hand to a lefthand, or vice versa; and my invention consists, in general terms, in the construction and combination of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

The body of the range is made of the usual form and construction of an ordinary cookinge stove, with oven-doors on both sides. body is placed the top A, made inthree sections or parts, a, a, and a", as shown. The sections a and a, forming the ends of the top plate, have the usual form of the ends of the ordinary top plate. The middle section, a, is made to extend horizontally at one end a short distance beyond the sides of the other sections, a and of, as shown at b. In this projection 12 is formed an opening, 0, around which is formed the usual pipe-collar, b. The other end of this middle section, a, is made to conform in size and shape to the sides of the other sections, as shown at b". On the under side of the section a, and at each end thereof, are formed lugs a, which, when the section a is in place, fit outside of the side plates, d, and prevent any lateral movement of the middle section. this middle section, a, is formed a recess, 6, in the upper edge of each of the side plates, d, for the purpose of affording an" exit for' the smoke, &c., from therange. The recess on one side of the range is covered by a flue-box, f, which is attached to the side plate and to the under side of the projection 12 of the section a by means of screws or other convenient means. The recess on the opposite side of the stove is covered by a plate, k, which is also attached to the side plate and the section a, as clearly shown at the left of Figs. 1 and 2.

To direct the heat, smoke, and gases under the holes at the back of the range or behind the section a, I place a deflecting-plate, Z, between the top of the oven and the top plates of the range at that side of the range where the flue-box is secured, and thereby cause the heat, smoke, and gases to pass under the back holes of the range while passing from the firechamber to the-flue-box, as is clearly shown -in Fig. 1.

is only necessary to remove the screws .which Under On this hold the flue-box f and the stopper-plate k to the side plates, d. Then the section a, with the flue-box and stopper-plate, can be lifted from the top, reversed, and put in its place on the range, and the flue-box and stopper-plate again secured to the side plates. It will also be necessary, when the section a is changed, as above stated, to change the deflector-plate Z. This can easily be done by removing the screw .9, which holds one end of the deflecting-plate, the other end being held by a projection, n, on the end of the damper on, entering a hole in the opposite end of the deflecting-plate. The deflectingplate can then be slid around to a corresponding position on the opposite side of the range. V

From the above it is apparent that a range can be quickly and easily changed from a righthand to a left-hand, no additional parts being needed.

A flue-box, f, may be attached or formed on both of the side plates, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 11, and the end 11 of the top plate or section a would be made the same as the end b, but without the pipe-collar, so as to cover the flue-box not in use, as clearly shown, and in such case it would be only necessary to reverse the top plate and deflecting-plate Z in changingthe stove or portable range from a right to a left hand.

I claim herein as my i1wention 1. In combination with a portable stove or range, a, removable and reversible pipe-connection, whereby the stove or range may be altered to a right or left hand one, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a portable stove or range, a combined removable and reversible top plate and pipe-collar, whereby the stove or range may be altered to a right or left hand one, substantially as set forth.

3. In a convertible right and left hand stove or portable range having recessed side plates, a flue-box attachable to and detachable from the recessed side plates, and reversible from one side to the other, in combination with a reversible top plate having a pipe-collar attached thereto, and a removable stopper-plate, substantially as set forth.

4. In a convertible right and left hand stove or portable range having recessed side plates, a flue-box attachable to and detachable from the side plates, and reversible from one side to the other, in combination with a reversible top plate having a pipe-collar attached thereto, and with a removable stopper-plate for covering the recess not covered by the fluebox, substantially as set forth.

5. In a convertible right and left hand stove or portable range having recessed side plates, a flue-box attachable to and detachable from the side plates, and reversible from one side to the other, in combination with a reversible top plate having a pipe-collar attached thereto, and a reversible deflecting-plate, substantially as set forth.

6. In a convertible right andleft hand stove or portable range having recessed side plates, the flue-box f, in combination with the top plate, at, having pipe-collar I), the stopperplate is, and the deflecting-plate Z, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

CHARLES P. GEISSENHAINER.

W'itnesses:

DARWIN S. W'oLoo'rr, R. H. WHITTLESEY. 

